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Liberal Catholic Succession
​of the Holy Celtic Church International

The bishops of the Holy Celtic Church International can trace several lines of succession from the Liberal Catholic Church. This is one of them:
  • James Ingall Wedgwood (1883-1951), 1st Presiding Bishop of The Liberal Catholic Church (consecrated as The Regionary Bishop of The Old Catholic Church in England) assisted by Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934), 2nd Presiding Bishop, LCC (1923), and the Jonkheer Julian Adriaan Mazel (1869-1928), Regionary Bishop for the Netherlands, LCC (1924), on 13 July 1919 consecrated: 

  • Irving Steiger Cooper (1882-1935), Regionary Bishop for the United States, LCC (1919), who with Ray Marshall Wardall (1877-1953), 4th Presiding Bishop, LCCI (1947) and George Sydney Arundale (1878-1945), Regionary Bishop for India, LCC (1926), on 13 July 1931 consecrated: 

  • Charles Hampton (1886-1958), Regionary Bishop for the United States, LCC (1935), who with Archbishop-Primate Henry J. Kleefisch, The Byzantine Universal Orthodox Church, Archbishop-Primate Lowell P. Wadle, The American Catholic Church, and Patriarch Antoun Aneed, The Byzantine Catholic Church, exchanged consecrations on 23 August 1945 with: 

  • Wallace de Ortega Maxey (Mar David I) (1902-1992) Second Archbishop-Primate, The Apostolic Episcopal Church (1948). Archbishop de Ortega Maxey consecrated and enthroned as the third Archbishop-Primate on 7 November 1986: 

  • Nils Bertil Alexander Persson (Mar Alexander) (1941-), Third Primate of the Apostolic Episcopal Church (1986), who assisted by Philip Lewis, Metropolitan-Archbishop-Primate, The Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North & South America & Europe, and Paget E.J. Mack, Archbishop, The Franciscan Order of St Benedict the Moor, consecrated on 23 November 2008: 

• Alistair Herrick Bate (Mar Alexei) - Primus of the Holy Celtic Church International.
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Consecation of Bl. James Ingall Wedgwood, 13th February 1916

Link to the Mar Thoma Liberal Catholic Church

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